| name | sesame |
| description | Search past Pi coding sessions with Sesame local BM25 search. Use for multi-word session search, tool-call searches, and recent session discovery. |
Sesame session search
Sesame indexes Pi session files into SQLite FTS5 and ranks results with BM25.
When to use
Use sesame when you need:
- Multi-word topic search (
"nix infra cleanup", "publish workflow changesets")
- Tool-call oriented search (
--tools, --tool bash, --path package.json)
- Recent session discovery (
"*" with filters)
Use sesame search "*" to list recent sessions. Use read on a result path after you identify the session to inspect.
CLI
sesame search "query"
sesame search "query" --json
sesame search "query" --cwd /path/to/project
sesame search "query" --after 7d
sesame search "query" --before 2026-01-01
sesame search "query" --limit 5
sesame search "query" --tools
sesame search "query" --tool bash
sesame search "query" --path package.json
sesame search "query" --exclude <session-id>
List recent sessions:
sesame search "*" --limit 20
sesame search "*" --cwd /path --after 2w --exclude <session-id>
Index management:
sesame index
sesame index --full
sesame status
sesame watch
sesame watch --interval 30
Workflow
- Run
sesame search "query".
- If results look stale, run
sesame index or wait for sesame watch.
- Narrow with
--cwd, --after, --before, --tools, --tool, or --path.
- Use
--json when another tool needs structured output.
Date filters
- Relative:
7d, 2w, 1m
- Absolute:
YYYY-MM-DD
